We had spent a year planning the programme and we couldn’t wait to get started. The ‘Symphony of Island and Literature’ translation workshop had been scheduled for November, the typhoon season would be over by then. After all, Taiwan hadn’t had a typhoon in November for 58 years. The workshop programme would take us to Taiwan’s […]
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Martha Loder’s new play “The Town” wins George Devine Award
Martha Loder’s new work The Town has been awarded the George Devine Award, one of the most prestigious UK awards for new writing. The play explores the complexities of family and community, after a young boy’s act of violence, and exposes how swiftly we turn to blame. Martha developed the work as part of her […]
Revelation, the opening of a short story by Amy Honeywell
Editors’ Note This week, in my ongoing selection from the recently published UEA MA Anthologies, I’m sharing the opening of this wonderfully strange story, at once Gothic and tender, by Amy Honeywell. There’s so much to like here – the relationship between Elise and her inadvertent guest, the slow exploration of the logical consequences of […]
A chapter from Helen Gray’s ‘Magdalen Park’
This is the opening chapter from Helen Gray’s crime novel Magdalen Park. To read the second chapter, read the MA Crime Writing Anthology from Egg Box Press. But to read any further, you’ll have to join the rest of us in waiting for Magdalen Park to be published. Meanwhile, Helen Gray’s darkly comic short story […]
Correcting the Lens, a poem by Hector Wood
i. My great-great-grandfather invented photography Except not really It was more a silver, round, telescope In the process he blew off his hand Estonians are not known to flinch Nor gaze askance at smouldering flesh But it’s a shame he never got that patent It was also a shame about the depression going on Which […]
UEA poets publish three new poetry pamphlets
AV Bridgwood has just launched a new pamphlet of poetry, Spark, published with ignitionpress. Ignitionpress, like UEA’s Boiler House Press, is a University publishing project, based at Oxford Brookes University. Spark is the latest in a series of excellent poetry pamphlets, including works by Isabella Baafi and Mary-Jean Chan. Meanwhile, Hector Wood’s first pamphlet of […]
Terminal, a short story by Sasha Ockenden
“Not more than three days shall I remain under one roof.” Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe William scanned the carousel for a small red suitcase; or at least one that was reddish and smallish. He stood, as always, near the tail of the luggage snake, where bags were fed back into the […]
Two new poems by Jake Reynolds
Editor’s Introduction This week I’m sharing two poems by Jake Reynolds, taken from his upcoming pamphlet We Both Say. There were so many poems in this pamphlet I wanted to feature here, but ultimately that opening statement ‘We need more flexible aubades’ seemed to be at the heart of the pamphlet. We Both Say will […]
Reflections
More than three months pass before I finally find the perfect moment to think back on my time as BCLT Translator in Residence. Staying at the Baltic Centre for Writers and Translators (BCWT) in the medieval city of Visby, gazing down at the gothic architecture and the surging waves of the Baltic, I catch my […]
Four Anthologies of New Writing from UEA MA Students
Four anthologies of new writing by students on UEAs MAs in Creative Writing were published last week, with a lively launch party to celebrate. As NewWriting.net editor, I’ll be sharing a selection of work from each of the different MA Creative Writing strands on this site over the next few weeks. There’s an extraordinary range […]
